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" Mr. Maxim Explains
Exactly how New York
City Would Be De
stroyed or Captured
Very Easily and Cheap
ly in Two Different
Ways.
After New York's
Capture Boston Could
Be Taken Quickly by
a Short Military Cam
paign on Land.
Meanwhile, Having
Established an Avia
tion Base, Squadrons
of Enemy Aeroplanes
‘Could Destroy Chicago,
Detroit, Pittsburg, St.
Louis, Washington and
Nearby Philadelphia.
b.fl of adequacy should be consid
ed for one moment, and we should
no time about it.
% The only thing that should Hmit
what we do is our capacity for doing
. Every workshop in the couatry
Lable to serve the purpose should be
commandeered for the work.
__The American people are a sympa
thetic people. Even when some mur
"derer is up for hanging he is fre
ently deluged with bouquets of
gvon and petitions a mile long are
‘submitted to the Governor for his
pardon.
Things near at hand make a much
stronger appeal to human sympathy
than what is remote, either in time
or place. The fact that a million
young men would be slaughtered if
this country should be invaded does
‘not make anything lfke as strong an
‘appeal to the sympathies of the
,American people, especially of Amer
jcan women, as a solitary murderer
deserving death and awaiting the
gallows,
The pacifists who are trying to
defeat national defense are actually
fostering the wholesale slaughter of
American citizens. Of course, this
is not their intention, but should they
succeed it will be, nevertheless, the
inevitable result.
In order adequately to insure us
‘{nim such a calamity it is neces
sary only to build such a navy and
raise and equip such an army as
shall make it evident to any preda
tory nation, or combination of preda
tory nations, that it would cost more
to whip us than the plunder would
be worth.
Here lies the answer to the pa
‘cifists, for here lies the limit for any
need for preparedness. No matter
rhow much other nations may pre
pare—no matter how much in excess
our preparation may be that of
er. nations—they may have armies
huu vastly greater than our
‘own—lif our fleet and our army to
gether are sufficiently large to make
t very evident that the cost of whip
ping us would exceed -the value of
the plunder and the value of the
fruits of conguest, then we shall not
be in the least danger of attack.
" Here also lies the answer to the
‘argument of the pacifists that if we
were to prepare sufficiently to defend
ourselves against the great military
nations of the world, we should also
become a military .despotism—we
'should become aggressors and at
tack and plunder other nations.
- There is not the least danger of
this, even entirely aside from the
ethics of it. We could not afford to
do 'it. It would be too costly. It
‘would cost us far too much to con
quer any one of the great foreign
powers than all we_could get out of
it could possibly be worth. B i
" What should then be our preparation? We should, in the
first place, introduce the Swiss military school system, and train
_our boys and young men in military sclence. We should raise and
mlp an army of at least five hundred thousand men, and main
that army constantly. We should have universal conscrip
tion. Every young man should be made to serve his country for
& short perfod.
© lldo not advoecate a long period of service, for with the Swiss
gtem' we should not require a long period of servide, but every
'hould be taught military science in echool, and then -each
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mi*t be landed near New York and short military expeditions
wotld capture Boston, Philadelphia, the rich manufacturing
towns in Connecticut, and within the marked area of 170 miles
radius would secure possession of most of our manufactories of
armaments and war materials, together with the principal coal
fields of Pennsylvania.
vear made to servé in some military encampment or manoeuvre
from one week to two weeks, Even should his period of service
be two weeks per annum, and this kept up for ten years, his total
period of service would be less than six months.
Such a system would be a veritable school of patriotism.
Everywhere we find a German we find a patriot, because every
German has been taught to love his country through service to
his country. Our patriotism is lukewarm. We love those we
serve, and we should serve our country more, and then we would
love: it better-
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Rich New York City an Easy Prey
New York City, being the richest pium, would be the first objective of the enemy.
How easily a hostile fleet could overcome our harbor defences is shown in Mr. Maxim’'s
Diagram “A.”
The heaviest guns at Sandy Hook have a range of eight miles. The 15-inch guns
of war vessels of the latest British type have a range of twelve to fifteen miles. The
hostile fleet, lying safely just beyond the range of the Sandy Hook batteries, would
smash them to pieces from the position marked “First Position.”
Having silenced the Sandy Hook batteries (Fort Hancock), the fleet would move to
the “Second Position.” From here they would be able to batter to picces Fort Wads
worth and Fort Hamilton, further up the harbor.
This being accomplished, the fleet could move closer in and bombard all of Brook
lyn, Manhattan Island and Jersey City.
The enemy would have also an alternative opportunity of taking New York without
firing a shot at ‘the harbor defences. Under cover of the guns of the enemy warships
a landing of troops could be made on the Long Island or Connecticut shore, We have
no adequate field artillery to oppose such a landing, nor any adequate army ta line up
against such an invasion.
Once landed, New York could be captured by an infantry force, and Boston
would be taken by an expeditionary force sent overland through Rhode Island and
Mau\zchusetu.
hile New York and Boston were being taken an aviation base could be estab
lished, and squadrons of military aeroplanes dispatched to destroy or hold for ransom
Chicago, Detroit, Pittsbyrg, Bt. Louis, Washington, Philadelphia and other cities.
At an estimated coet to the enemy of a billion dollars to outfit such an expedition
they could probably wring an indemnity penalty from the Eastern cities of twenty to
thirty billion dollars—a very good business investment for whatever nation is whipped
in the present European conflagration and must look about for some fat, rich, defence
less country to milk for the indemnity that the beaten nation must pay.
As an economie proposition such a military system of training
would be worth many times its cost, Young men 80 trained would
be rendered so much more efficient that the two weeks a year de
voted to military service would not be a loss, but a gain. Even
if it were a month per year it would still be a galn, and not a loss,
as compared with no training at all. Young men who have had
military training are worth far more in the industries of civil life.
We sghould have a navy equal to that of any other one of the
great powers, As ex-Secretary of the Navy Meyer sald, we are
the richest nation in the world and we can well afford to match
dollars with any other nation in the bullding and upkeep of a
navy, as a means of national insurance.
Of course, if other nations could be persuaded to disarm, then
we should not need this enormous insurance. But they will not
disarm. and ae long as they will not there is nothing left for us
but also to arm, and to arm sufficlently to make us safe—arm
gufficiently to insure us against the dvead calamity of"war.
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DIAGRAM A.—Mr., Maxim’'s topographical sketch showing how 2a
hostile fleet would silence the Sandy Hook batteries while lying
safely out of range (as shown in “First Position”).
ugecond Position” shows how enemy fleet would move in closer
and silence the batteries at the Narrows, Fort Wadsworth and
Fort Hamiiton.
Elest might then safely move to “Third Positlon” and bombard alt
of Manhattan laland, Jsrsey Gity and Hrooklyo.